ANTI LEBANON

ANTI LEBANON is a political thriller re-imagined as a ghost story, or maybe a nightmare taking place in the terror-filled dreamscape of Lebanon today.

The criminal and the victim alike return to the scene of the crime... It is the Arab Spring and the fate of the Christians of the Middle East is uncertain. The many Christians of Lebanon walk a knife edge, their very survival in this ancestral refuge in doubt. When Hezbollah flex their muscles in a takeover of west Beirut, amid the old shell-scarred sandstone villas, the echoing gunfire, a young Christian wandering the emptied streets is entrapped in an act of violence that will awaken monsters from the civil war and beyond. Anti Lebanon is a cross-genre political thriller and horror story embedded within these recent events, featuring a multiethnic Christian family living out the lingering after-effects of Lebanon’s civil war, as it struggles to deal with its phantoms, its ghosts, and its vampires.

Carl Shuker was born in New Zealand in 1974, and lived many years in Tokyo before settling in London, where he lives with his wife and daughter. This year, he is writer in residence at Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. His first novel, The Method Actors, was awarded the “Prize in Modern Letters,” the richest prize in the world for an emerging writer. His second novel, The Lazy Boys, is currently being developed into a movie by director Brendan Donovan and producer Michael Wrenn.